The Subprimes (ePub)
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In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score. Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes. Their bad credit ratings have lost them jobs and make them unemployable. Jobless and without assets, they have walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address. Fugitives who must keep moving to avoid arrest, they wander the globally warmed American wasteland searching for day labor and a place to park their battered SUVs for the night.
Karl Taro Greenfeld's trenchant satire follows the fortunes of two families whose lives reflect this new dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-financially-fittest America. Desperate for work and food, a Californian Subprime family has been forced to migrate east, hoping for a better life. They are soon joined in their odyssey by a writer and his familyslightly better off but falling fast. Eventually they discover a small settle- ment of Subprimes who have begun an agrarian utopia built on a foreclosed exurb. Soon, though, the little stability they have is threatened when their land is targeted by job creators for shale oil extraction.
But all is not lost. A hero emergesa woman on a motorcyclesuspiciously lacking a credit score . . . who may just save the world.
In The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld turns his keen and unflinching eye to our country todayand where we may be headed. The result is a darkly funny comedy about paradise lost and found, as well as the value of credit, economic policy, and the meaning of family.
- Autor: Karl Taro Greenfeld
- 2015, 320 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- ISBN-10: 006213244X
- ISBN-13: 9780062132444
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2015
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